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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 11:19:36 PST Return-Path: <cocot@osc.versant.com> Message-ID: <surfpunk-0028@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: cocot@osc.versant.com (gur fhcreabezny rznvy fbpvrgl) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0028] MOVIE: Money Man (An Artist Who Makes Money. Literally.) Keywords: surfpunk, Philip Hass, J S G Boggs, Secret Service R U Serious (editor of Mondo2000) said something to the effect that money is the ultimate current example of virtual reality -- not being backed by gold or anything real, it's just bits and bytes on paper, in computers, in stock exchanges. Monetary transcations today are basically hard disk writes. strick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Source: New York Times, 15 Jan 93, National Edition, pB10 Headline: An Artist Who Makes Money. Literally. Byline: By Stephen Holden | Money Man | Directed by Philip Haas | Released by Milestone Films | Running time 60 minutes. |_____________________________ J S G Boggs, the subject of Philip Haas's intriguing documentary film "Money Man," is an artistic provocateur whose chosen form of expression is the creation of homemade currency. His hand-drawn bills, while not strictly counterfeit, look enough like the real thing to have alarmed the autorities in several countries. In Australia and England he has been arrested for counterfeiting but later acquitted of the charges. And in 1991, the Secret Service seized 15 of his bills in a hotel room in Cheyenne, Wyo. The agency, while declining to prosecute, refused to return the bills, which the artist prefers to call "notes." More than a superb draftsman, Mr Boggs is an ingenious Conceptual artist whose finished works, which he calls "transactions," require the participants to re-think basic notions about money, art, and value. He doesn't consider one of his works complete until he has "spent" one of his fake bills and received real currency in exchange. The bills themselves often have whimsical touches, like his signing of his own name as Secretary of the Treasury, or his initialing the back of a one-faced bill with a thumb print. "Money Man," which has opened in New York and will spread to other cities at the end of the month, follows the artist on a motorcycle trip from his home in Pittsburgh to Washington, where he hopes to retrieve the notes that were confiscated in Cheyenne. ... ... The artist has refined a clever spiel to explain the purpose of his work. It forces people, he explains, to consider the processes that determine the value of an object. It also subverts the art-world establishment by eliminating the middle man. ... ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither. ________________________________________________________________________ Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged. Xanalogical archive access soon. Pull the wool over your own eyes. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ :w ! spell BARRNET Boggs COCOT Hass Mondo2000 SURFPUNK SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal Wyo Xanalogical acquitted cocot osc.versant.com pB10 strick surfpunk zine [Hit return to continue]